First Report of Priacanthus prolixus Starnes, 1988 (Perciformes: Priacanthidae) from the West Bengal Coast

Authors

  • Swarup Ranjan Mohanty
     Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha
  • Anil Mohapatra
     Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha
  • K. K. Bineesh
     Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre (ANRC), Zoological Survey of India, Haddo, Port Blair - 744 102, Andaman and Nicobar Island

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/128807

Keywords:

New Record, Priacanthidae, West Bengal.

Abstract

Present study reports Priacanthus prolixus Starnes (1988) for the first time from West Bengal coast. The species is reported here on the basis of five specimens were collected from Digha Mohana, West Bengal, and Bay of Bengal. The species is characterized with elongated and laterally compressed body, a unique character of Priacanthidea is head bears large eye, scales in lateral line series is about 74-84 and scale rows between dorsal fin origin and lateral line is 10-11.

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Author Biographies

Swarup Ranjan Mohanty, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha

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Anil Mohapatra, Estuarine Biology Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur-on-Sea, Ganjam - 761002, Odisha

Scientist & officer-in-Charge

K. K. Bineesh, Andaman and Nicobar Regional Centre (ANRC), Zoological Survey of India, Haddo, Port Blair - 744 102, Andaman and Nicobar Island

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2019-08-06

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Mohanty, S. R., Mohapatra, A., & Bineesh, K. K. (2019). First Report of <I>Priacanthus prolixus</I> Starnes, 1988 (Perciformes: Priacanthidae) from the West Bengal Coast. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 119(3), 289–291. https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v119/i3/2019/128807

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Volume 119, Issue 3, 2019

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